Polonsky's plays. Sergei Polonsky

But what effort did this rise to transcendental heights cost? The biographical article we prepared, dedicated to one of the most successful entrepreneurs in modern Russia, will help you understand this.

The early years, childhood and family of Sergei Polonsky

But in fairness, it is worth noting that the “Soviet” army did not remain for long. In 1990, Sergei was drafted into the army, and a year and a half later, the Soviet Union sank into oblivion. Polonsky found this moment in Kutaisi, where his landing brigade was located. Some time later, the troops were transferred to the Tskhinvali region, where for a long time they were at the very epicenter of the conflict that had just broken out between South Ossetia and Georgia.

Full video of the fight between Lebedev and Polonsky.

After returning to Russia, Sergei Polonsky began to make plans for the future. He managed to work in various industries, but soon decided to start his own business.

In 1994, together with his friends Artur Kirilenko and Natalya Pavlova, our today’s hero formed the Stroymontazh company, which was initially engaged in finishing work, but soon began to actively develop in the field of construction as well. In 1996, the company began building its first contract house. This moment marked the beginning of a new chapter in the life of our today's hero.

Career of Sergei Polonsky in the world of business

In 2004, the Moscow division of the Stroymontazh company, led by Sergei Polonsky, rebranded and became known as Mirax Group. In turn, the St. Petersburg “Stroymontazh” remained with Artur Kirilenko, but six years later it went bankrupt.

The affairs of our today's hero, in turn, always went much better. In the same 2004, the entrepreneur took up the direct implementation of the Federation Tower project, which later became the main symbol of the Mirax Group, and at the same time the whole of Moscow. In parallel with this, the company also implemented several other striking projects in the luxury real estate segment. Among these are the residential complexes “Korona”, “Golden Keys-2”, as well as the business center “Europe-Building”.

In 2005, Mirax Group made an attempt to enter the market of Russian regions, but some time later abandoned this idea. At that time, this decision was justified by the personnel crisis - the lack of the required number of engineers, builders, architects, and managers.

But two years later, when it came to the markets of European countries, the necessary personnel were finally found. The company began the construction of “Astra Montenegro” - a “club city” in one of the resorts of Montenegro, and also took on the implementation of a project of a similar scale - “Le Village Royal” in the Swiss Alps. The projects were a great success, and soon Polonsky’s company began to develop the markets of the USA (Miami) and resort Cambodia. After this, the company also opened representative offices in Geneva and Hanoi (Vietnam). A major project was launched in the UK.

The most shocking actions of Sergei Polonsky

However, the company's fate was not always cloudless. At the end of the 2000s, the company was hit hard by the global crisis. Some projects were frozen. In 2009, a Moscow court arrested large assets of the company in connection with non-payment of debt to Alfa Bank in the amount of $241 million. Subsequently, the debts were repaid, but due to financial problems and a damaged reputation, the company was forced to change its name to “Potok”.

In 2011, Forbes magazine included our today's hero among the most eccentric entrepreneurs in Russia. His phrase “Who doesn’t have a billion can go to hell…” is widely known among people, as well as the episode with eating his own tie as part of Sergei Minaev’s “Minaev Live” program. The last of these cases was associated with an erroneous forecast regarding the rise in prices for luxury real estate. Polonsky spoke about a 25% increase, noting that he would eat his own tie if he was wrong. Subsequently, it turned out that Sergei Yuryevich was slightly mistaken in the forecast figures.

Among other interesting episodes from the life of a businessman, it is also worth mentioning the episode with the failed flight into space. For a long time, Polonsky was preparing for the flight, but later he was forced to abandon this idea due to health problems.

In the summer of 2014, a criminal case was opened against Polonsky. The entrepreneur was accused of fraud (the case of the Kutuzovskaya Mile residential complex) and theft of funds from shareholders of the Rublevskaya Riviera residential complex (3.2 billion rubles disappeared). The court issued a resolution for the arrest of Sergei Yuryevich in absentia. Two years later, in May 2015, he was deported from Cambodia, where he had lived on his own island since 2012, and placed in Moscow pre-trial detention center No. 1.

Personal life of Sergei Polonsky

Despite having common children, the entrepreneur’s first marriage broke up. For a long time (12 years), Sergei lived with a woman named Olga Deripasko (not a relative of Oleg Deripaska - namesake) in a civil marriage, but on June 1, 2016, they held a wedding ceremony, which took place in the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center. Despite the specific nature of the place, the celebration followed all the rules: with a dress, rings, a wedding march and guests.

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Education

• Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas named after. THEM. Gubkin, Department of Applied Mathematics (1991), diploma of engineer-mathematician
• State Oil Academy named after. THEM. Gubkina, postgraduate study in "fluid, gas and plasma mechanics", diploma of research engineer (1994)
• Post-doctoral fellowship at the Freiberg Technical University - Mining Academy (Germany, 1997-2000)
• Braunschweig Technical University - European School of Hydraulics, special course in Numerical Methods (Germany, 1998)
• Russian State University for the Humanities, Faculty of Archival Affairs of the Historical and Archival Institute, majoring in historical and archival studies (2012), diploma of historian-archivist (with honors).

Candidate of Technical Sciences (1994)

Labor activity

In 1993-1997 - scientific, then senior researcher at the State Oil Academy named after. THEM. Gubkin; taught seminars in various technical disciplines and supervised students' coursework.

Scientific interests

source study, history of book culture, paleography, onomastics, church history, history of epistolary etiquette, information heuristics

Publications

Historical research

• Polonsky D.G. Historical erudition of the compiler of the “Tale of the Council of Chalcedon” // “Slověne = Slovene”. 2014. - Vol. 3.No. 2. - P. 130-174.

• Polonsky D.G. Features of the dissemination of teachings about the Ecumenical Councils in the East Slavic tradition of statutory readings of the XV-XVII centuries // Rumyantsev readings - 2014. Part 2: materials of the international scientific conference. (April 15-16, 2014): [at 2 o’clock] / Russian state. b-ka [ed. : L.N. Tikhonova, E.A. Ivanova, I.I. Shestopalov]. – M.: Pashkov House, 2014. – P. 130-135.

• Polonsky D.G. Historical error of the compiler of the “Tale of the Council of Chalcedon” and Collection of 1073 // Auxiliary and special sciences of history in the XX-early XXI centuries: vocation, creativity, public service of the historian: Materials of the XXVI International. scientific conf. Moscow, April 14-15. 2014 / editorial board: Yu.E. Shustova (responsible editor) and others - M.: RGGU, 2014. - P. 286-290.

• Polonsky D. G. Chronological aspects of studying the message of Pope Leo I in the Slavic translation of Theodosius the Greek // Auxiliary historical disciplines in modern scientific knowledge: Materials of the XXV International. scientific conf. Moscow, January 31 − February 2 2013: In 2 hours / editorial. : Yu.E. Shustova (ed.) and others; Ross. state humanitarian University, Ist.-Arch. Institute, Higher School of Source Studies, spec. and auxiliary ist. disciplines. Part II. M.: RSUH, 2013. pp. 478–481.

• Polonsky D. G. The first Russian printed letter writer and his role in the formation of the epistolary culture of the New Age // Old hands and rare sights in the university library: materials of the II international book reading (Odessa, 18-19 spring 2012). – Odessa, 2013. – P.244-260.

• Polonsky D. G. Pope Leo I the Great and his Christological doctrine in East Slavic literature of the 12th-17th centuries // History of religions in Ukraine: scientific shorichnik / order. O. Kirichuk, M. Omelchuk, I. Orlevich. – Lviv: Institute of Religious Studies – branch of the Lviv Museum of the History of Religions, 2013. – Book I: History. 2013.

• Polonsky D. G. On the history of the first editions of the civil press in Russia: “Complementary book” and its influence on the culture of writing in the 18th century. // Rumyantsev readings - 2013. Part 2: materials of the international conference. (April 16-17, 2013): [at 2 o’clock] / Russian state. b-ka; ed. L. N. Tikhonova and others - M.: Pashkov House, 2013. - P. 73-79.

• Polonsky D. G. Source study problems of studying the Word of the Council of Chalcedon in the Russian book-writing tradition // “Problems of diplomacy, codicology and act archaeography.” Materials of the XXIV International Scientific Conference / IAI RSUH, IVI RAS, Archaeographic Commission of the RAS. - M., 2012. - P. 429-432.

• Polonsky D. G. The place of the message of Pope Leo I about the nature of Christ in Russian handwritten collections of the XIV-XVII centuries. // “Rumyantsev Readings – 2012”. Part 2: Materials of the All-Russian scientific. conf. (April 17-28, 2012): [at 2 o’clock] / Russian state. b-ka; [comp. E.A. Ivanov]. - M.: Pashkov House, 2012. - P. 133-138.

• Polonsky D. G. Manuscripts of the “epistole” of Pope Leo I in the Slavic translation of Theodosius the Greek // // Rumyantsev readings - 2011: materials of the international scientific conference (April 19 - 21, 2011): [in 2 hours]/ [comp. M.E. Ermakov]. – M.: Pashkov House, 2011. - Part 2: – 2011. – P. 36 - 41.

• Polonsky D. G. // “Menshikov Readings - 2011: scientific almanac.” - St. Petersburg: “XVIII century”, 2011.- Issue. 2 (9). - P. 75-93.

• Polonsky D. G. Ethnogeographical factor in the modification of names of foreigners by clerks at the end of the 16th – 17th centuries. // Historical geography: human space vs human in space: materials of the XXIII International. scientific conf. Moscow, January 27-29 2011 – M.: RSUH, 2011. – P. 361-365.

Selected publications in socio-political publications

• Lukin M., Polonsky D. (comp.) All prisons in Russia // “Power”. No. 17 (620) dated 05/02/2005 [electronic version of the printed publication]
• Polonsky D. Strict regime economy // "Money". No. 20(525) dated May 23, 2005. [electronic version of printed publication]
• Polonsky D. (comp.) Assassinations of world leaders [Reference book] // "Power". No. 17-18 (671-672) dated 05/08/2006. [electronic version of printed publication]
• Polonsky D. (comp.) An almost limitless country // “Power”. No. 30(684) dated July 31, 2006 [electronic version of printed publication]
• Polonsky D. God marks the screen // "Power". No. 49 (753) dated December 17, 2007 [electronic version of the printed publication]

Selected publications in applied mathematics and mechanics

• Bedrikovetskii, P. G.; Polonskii, D. G. and Shapiro, A. A.: Analysis of the Convective Instability of a Binary Mixture in a Porous Medium // Fluid Dynamics. 1993. Vol. 28.No. 1. P. 82-89. Translated from Izvestiia Rossiiskoj Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza. No.1. P. 110-119.
• Bedrikovetskii, P. G.; Polonskii, D. G. and Shapiro, A.A: Convective Stability of Equilibrium of a Binary Mixture in a Fractured Porous Medium // Fluid Dynamics. 1994. Vol. 29.No. 1. P. 68-75. Translated from Izvestiia Rossiiskoj Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza. 1994. No.1. P.88-97
• Polonskii, D. G., Shapiro, A. A: Stability of the Discontinuity Front in Multiphase Multicomponent Displacement // J. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. 1994. Vol.58. No.4. P. 691-701. Translated from Prikladnaya Matematika i Mekhanika, 1994, V.58. No.4. P. 114-123.
• Bedrikovetsky, P.G., Polonsky, D.G. and Shapiro, A.A.: Convective Stability of a Binary Mixture in a Anisotropic Porous Medium // Entropie, 1994. Vol. 30.No. 184/185. P. 73-80
• Polonskii, D. G.: Compressibility effects under conditions of convective stability of miscible fluids in a porous medium // Fluid Dynamics. 1995. Vol.30. No. 1, R. 11-17. Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, 1995, No. 1. P. 16–23.
• Bedrikovetsky P.G., Magarshak T., Polonsky, D. and Shapiro, A.: Effects of Capillary Pressure on the Phase Equilibrium of Gas-Condensates in Porous Media // Proceedings of International Gas Research Conference and Exhibition, France, Cannes, November 6- 10, 1995.
• Polonsky, D.: Diagnosis of Natural Convection in Hydrocarbon Reservoirs // Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery (ECMOR V), - Leoben, Austria, September 1996. P. 73-82
• Kadet, V., Polonsky, D. : Percolation Modeling and Non-Newtonian Flows in Oil Reservoirs // Society of Petroleum Engineers, Paper SPE 39028 presented at the Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference, 30 August-3 September 1997, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 11 p.m.
• Kadet, V. V., Polonskii, D. G. : Law of flow of a viscoplastic fluid through a porous medium with allowance for inertial losses // Fluid Dynamics. 1999, Vol. 34.No. 1, p.58-63. Translated from Izvestiia Rossiiskoj Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza.
• Haefner, F., Behr, A., Polonski, D., and Nekrassov, A.: Lagerstaetten-Simulation – High-Tech des Reservoir Engineering // DGMK-Fruehjahrstagung am 27. / 28. April 2000 in Celle. ISBN 3-931850-64-1, S. 39-46.
• Haefner F., Behr A., ​​Nekrassov, A., and Polonski, D.: The Numerical Analysis of Convection and Diffusion-Dispersion Effects in Multiphase Compositional Modeling // Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery (ECMOR VII ), - Baveno, Italy, September 2000. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, M-9.
• Nekrassov, A., Behr A., ​​Brusilovsky A., Haefner F. and Polonski, D.: Approximation of the Mass Exchange, Convection and Dispersion Fluxes in the Compositional Reservoir Simulation // Society of Petroleum Engineers, Paper SPE 66387, presented at the SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium, Houston, Texas, 11-14 February 2001, 8 p.

Thanks to this, many works were set to music and became popular romances and songs that we know today: for example, “My fire shines in the fog.” Poems dedicated to the Caucasus (and in particular, Georgia) are particularly melodious.

Among the landscape lyrics (poems about nature, about winter, about spring, about autumn) there are many works that amaze with the amazing unity of the deepest poetic experience and perfect artistic form.

Polonsky knew how to poeticize love. In his poems, a woman is a friend and assistant to the lyrical hero; she is close to him in thoughts and aspirations. Love unites people, inspires them to heroism and self-sacrifice. This high feeling is sung in poems dedicated to Lopukhina and Nina Chavchavadze (Griboyedov’s wife).

He also wrote poems. The comic fairy tale poem “The Grasshopper the Musician,” in which he talks about his relationship with St. Petersburg society, also gained wide popularity, and was highly appreciated by Turgenev.

In simple and sincere words, the poet spoke about the Motherland and Russia, about life and death, about friendship and poetry, about God and faith.

The greatest success, as Polonsky himself believed, fell to the share of poems written for children. The best of them are memorized not only by children, but also by adults. This page contains works that are included in the school curriculum for grades 6 and 9.

Georgy Polonsky

Biblio- and filmography of works by Georgy Polonsky

Georgy Polonsky

Biography

Georgy Polonsky was born on April 20, 1939 in Moscow. While still in school, he began writing poetry, and at the beginning of his journey he dreamed of realizing himself as a poet. But having received a cautious review from Mikhail Svetlov, who suggested that “the young man will write prose,” G. Polonsky never published the collection of poems either then or later. And yet, from his youth, he was aware that his main concern would be literary creativity, and he combined his first poetic and prose experiments with a passion for philology. In 1957, he even received first prize at the Olympiad in Language and Literature, organized by Moscow University, and the award (a multi-volume collected works of Leonid Leonov) was presented to the future playwright by the now famous linguist and literary critic Vyach. Sun. Ivanov. Naturally, a person with such interests as G. Polonsky deliberately chose the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University for admission. But during the exam he was “bombarded”: an extracurricular question about what the magazine “Questions of History” wrote about Trotsky could not be within the applicant’s strength, and the then dean of the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, sadly remembered by specialists R. M. Samarin, simply kicked out the recent winner, trying to appeal.

Georgy Polonsky went to Minsk, entered the philological department of the Belarusian State University and, after studying there for a semester, transferred to the Moscow Regional Pedagogical Institute. Krupskaya. It turned out that an interesting literary life was emerging at MOPI: in the same years, Kamil Ikramov, Oleg Chukhontsev, and Vladimir Voinovich started there. This electronic publication contains pages of memories of Georgy Polonsky about the comrades of his youth, fellow students and teachers.

In 1959, as a result of a chance acquaintance with Rolan Bykov, who was then the chief director of the Moscow State University Student Theater, MOPI student Georgy Polonsky became the head of the literary part of this theater. The theater was just looking for a play about the time and how young people feel in this time, but the production of Soviet drama, it seemed, could do little to help the team. Then the twenty-year-old Zavlit decided to write the play himself. In 1961, a play called “I Have One Heart” (later the author was embarrassed by both this title and the excessive pathos of his lyrical drama) was staged on the stage of the Moscow State University Student Theater by Sergei Yutkevich.

The young playwright, who became a certified teacher of Russian, literature and English, went to teach at school. Perhaps the students considered him a very strange teacher: a few minutes before the end of the lesson he said: “And now - poetry!” - and read Zabolotsky, Pasternak, Slutsky. Deciding for himself that it was not entirely possible to communicate with students within the school curriculum, Polonsky preferred to do this in the language of poetry. While working as a teacher, he continued to try his hand at prose: he wrote stories and did not give up his dramatic experiments. The performance based on his second play, “Two Evenings in May,” was released in 1965 on the stage of the Academic Theater. Mossovet staged by Yuri Zavadsky. In this piece, as in the first play, the lyrical hero was a young man writing poetry. In general, most of Polonsky’s works contain poetry: his characters, both realistic and fabulous, need poetry, like air - for them it is both an atmosphere and a way to live, see and understand others and themselves.

Georgy Polonsky did not consider himself a teacher by vocation and, leaving school in 1965, entered the Higher Screenwriting Courses in the workshop of one of the best playwrights of Russian cinema, I. G. Olshansky. The script for the film "We'll Live Until Monday", directed by Stanislav Rostotsky, became Polonsky's graduation work. In the stuffy atmosphere of “tightening the ideological screws,” after Soviet tanks entered Prague, the film was accepted by film administrators, going through a huge number of discussions and quibbles. At the screening of the film at Goskino in the fall of 1968, even before the discussion began, when after the screening the lights in the hall went out, the loud voice of one of the prominent officials was heard: “This is the environment and soil of Czech events.” “We'll Live Until Monday” was saved by the fact that one of their children liked the picture shown at the dachas of the state's top leaders. The premiere, which took place in 1969 at the VI International Film Festival in Moscow, brought the main creators the “Golden Prize”, and in 1970, on the initiative of the All-Union Congress of Teachers, the USSR State Prize.

This was followed by the plays “Escape to Grenada” (1972), “Drama over Lyrics” (1975), “Tutor” (1978), “Quail in Burning Straw” (1981), which were performed on the stages of Moscow, Leningrad, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Rostov and many other cities. At the same time, in the 70s, the television films “Translation from English” (co-authored with Natalya Dolinina) and “Your Rights?” were made based on Polonsky’s scripts. (co-authored with Arkady Stavitsky), and the film “The Untransferable Key,” directed by Dinara Asanova, earned success among many viewers and was awarded the diploma “For Best Screenplay” at the 1976 film festival in Poland. During these same years, G. Polonsky’s works were translated into German, Hungarian, Slovak, Chinese and other languages.

The playwright's last play, "Short Tour to Bergen-Belsen," was completed in 1996. A version of the play was published in the magazine "Modern Drama", but she never saw the stage.

At different times, G. Polonsky appeared in print and as a publicist, comprehending the same moral, pedagogical, ideological problems that worried him as an artist. In one of his articles, he defended the importance for schools of a special humanitarian discipline, which he proposed to call “slow reading lessons.” These words served as the title of his last book, published after the death of the author: they largely contain the attitude that Georgy Polonsky professed in relation to literature, creativity, and life in general.

It was the intense attention to the inner life of a person, so noticeable in the “school” and “youth” plays of the 70s, that subsequently prompted the playwright to expand the range of plot motifs and turn to new means of expression. In the period from 1979 to 1988, he wrote fairy tales, addressed, in his words, to “adults who have not yet forgotten their childhood.”

“Cinderella’s Honeymoon” is a special fairy tale: it tells about everyone’s beloved Cinderella after her wedding to the prince, which never happened to Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, or Evgeniy Schwartz. No one has ever looked behind the curtain that was lowered at Cinderella’s wedding... Such an attempt has been made here. The fairy and her student decide to return and check: what kind of happiness did they arrange for Cinderella?

“Don’t leave...” - a fairy tale about a kingdom whose throne was seized by a cavalry colonel, about the crown prince-poet, who spent many years mute, about his love, about a wonderful flower - the Rose of Truth, about the struggle of the Poet and traveling actors against tyranny and the triumph of justice ...

“Red, Honest, in Love” is a remake of a children's fairy tale by the Swedish author J. Ekholm about the little fox Ludwig XIV and his chosen one, Tutta Carlson, a chicken. Leaving Ekholm's plot framework, Polonsky rewrote the entire text and introduced new characters, endowing the “animal” characters with human psychology and giving the conflicts a dangerous edge.

The last two of these stories may be known to the reader from television adaptations by Leonid Nechaev.

Perhaps, even in his realistic works, Georgy Polonsky was a “storyteller” - not only because he composed and loved fairy tales, but in general, in his attitude. He came not so much from real life, but from his own intuition and taste. In his works there is almost no intentional evil, but there are people convinced of their “rightness” and painful, conflicting clashes of their too different “truths”, thanks to which the reader, and sometimes even the author himself, could understand something new about his own life.

In this world, the writer will no longer have the opportunity to experience the feeling expressed by him on behalf of one of the movie characters with the formula that, as it now seems, has always existed: “Happiness is when you are understood...”. But there is hope that the reader will still experience this feeling over the pages of his works.

Biblio- and filmography of works by Georgy Polonsky

Books, magazine publications:

1. We'll live until Monday.

Film script about three days in one school. M., Art, 1970

2. We'll live until Monday.

Collection "School Years", M., "Young Guard", 1975, p.5-75

3. Translation from English (together with N. Dolinina). What are your rights? (jointly with A. Stavitsky).

Scripts for television films. M., Art, 1977

4. The key is non-transferable.

Three film stories about school. M., Children's literature, 1980

5. Quail in burning straw. A play in two acts.

"Theater", 7, 1982, p.128-152

6. Tutor

A resort story in two parts, seven scenes.

M., Art, 1980

7. Tutor.

Plays. M., Soviet writer, 1984

8. Cinderella's honeymoon.

Fantasy on a children's and eternal theme in two acts.

"Theater", 7, 1988, p.2-26

9. Short tour in Bergen-Belsen (“Ketzel”).

A dramatic memoir about a time that has not passed.

"Modern drama...

Yakov Polonsky was born December 6 (18), 1819 in Ryazan in the family of an official-intendant. The poet's mother, Natalya Yakovlevna, was an educated woman - she read a lot, wrote down poems, songs, and romances in notebooks.

At first, Polonsky was educated at home, and then he was sent to the Ryazan gymnasium. At this time, Polonsky read the works of Pushkin and V. Benediktov and began to write poetry himself. The gymnasium authorities instructed Polonsky to write congratulatory poems on the occasion of the arrival of the heir to the throne Alexander with the poet Zhukovsky in Ryazan. The venerable poet liked the poems of the young high school student, and he gave him a gold watch. It was in 1837, and the next year Polonsky graduated from high school and entered Moscow University at the Faculty of Law.

At the university, Polonsky, like many other students, was delighted by the lectures of Professor T.N. Granovsky. The young man met N.M. Orlov, son of the famous general, hero of the Patriotic War M.F. Orlova. I.S. gathered at the Orlovs’ house. Turgenev, P.Ya. Chaadaev, A.S. Khomyakov, F.N. Glinka and others. At these evenings, Polonsky read his poems.

In 1844 Polonsky graduated from the university and soon graduated first collection of his poems - “Gammas”, received favorably in the journal Otechestvennye zapiski.

Autumn 1844 Polonsky moved to Odessa to serve in the customs department. There he lives with the brother of the later famous anarchist Bakunin, and visits the house of Governor Vorontsov. The salary was not enough, and Polonsky gave private lessons. In the spring of 1846. the poet moved to the Caucasus, where he was transferred by the governor M.S. Vorontsov. Polonsky serves in his office. Soon he also became the editor of the Transcaucasian Vestnik newspaper.

In the newspaper he publishes works of various genres - from journalistic and scientific articles to essays and short stories.

Caucasian impressions determined the content of many of his poetic works. In 1849 Polonsky published collection "Sazandar"(singer (Georgian)). Service in the Caucasus lasted 4 years.

In 1857 Polonsky went abroad as a teacher-tutor in the family of Governor N.M. Smirnova. However, the poet soon abandoned the role of a teacher, since the absurd character and religious fanaticism of A.O. Smirnova-Rosset was disgusted by Polonsky. He is trying to take up painting in Geneva ( 1858 ), however, he soon meets with the famous literary philanthropist Count Kushelev-Bezborodko, who offered him the post of editor in the magazine “Russian Word” organized by him. Polonsky accepted this offer. Before 1860 the poet edited the Russian Word, later became a secretary in the Committee of Foreign Censorship, and three years later - a junior censor in the same committee. He held this position until 1896, after which he was appointed a member of the Council of the Main Directorate for Press Affairs.

Polonsky was on good terms with Nekrasov, I. Turgenev, P. Tchaikovsky, for whom he wrote the libretto (“Blacksmith Vakula”, later “Cherevichki”), with A.P. Chekhov - he dedicated the poem “At the Door” to him.

In 1887 The 50th anniversary of Polonsky's creative activity was solemnly celebrated.

Ya. Polonsky died October 18 (30), 1898 in St. Petersburg, buried in the Lgov Monastery. In 1958, the poet’s ashes were transported to Ryazan (the territory of the Ryazan Kremlin).

Polonsky wrote poems, poems, satirical newspaper feuilletons, published short stories, novellas and novels, and acted as a playwright and publicist. But of his vast creative heritage, only poetic works and lyrics are of value.

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